Abstract

The Geographical Pathology Committee of the International Union Against Cancer (U.I.C.C.) convened a Working Group on 22 to 23 October, 1964 in New York to discuss evidence of an association between exposure to asbestos dust and cancer. Forty delegates from eight countries attended, and separate panels on epidemiology, pathology and experimental pathology, and physics and chemistry met and, at the final session, under the Chairmanship of Dr. Harold Stewart (U.S.A) prepared the Report and Recommendations published below.